• Lindy Ruff (Buf) is coaching in his 13th consecutive season behind the bench of one club, tying Toe Blake (Montreal), Al Arbour (NY Islanders) and Lester Patrick (NY Rangers) for fourth all-time. Ruff also needs 17 wins to become the 16th coach in NHL history to reach 500 and 16 games to reach 1,000.
• Ron Wilson (Tor) needs 18 wins to become the seventh coach in NHL history to reach 600.
• Joel Quenneville (Chi) needs one game to reach 1,000.
• Paul Maurice (Car) needs 23 games to reach 1,000. At 43, Maurice would become the youngest coach to reach the milestone, surpassing the 47-year-old Brian Sutter with Chicago in 2003-04.

MOVING UP TOP 25 ALL-TIME -- GAMES

• Mark Recchi (Bos) needs 41 games to tie Ray Bourque (1,612) for eighth place all-time and 44 games to tie Larry Murphy (1,615) for seventh place.
• Mike Modano (Det) needs 15 games to tie Doug Gilmour (1,474) for 17th place all-time.
• Nicklas Lidstrom (Det) needs four games to tie Al MacInnis (1,416) for 26th place all-time and five games to tie Luke Richardson (1,417) for 25th place.

• Shane Doan (Phx) needs 51 games to tie Teppo Numminen (1,098) for first place in franchise history.
• Patrik Elias (NJ) needs 33 goals to tie John MacLean (347) for first place in franchise history.
• Radek Dvorak (Fla) needs 13 games to tie Robert Svehla (573) for first place in franchise history.
• Rick Nash (CBJ) needs 26 games to tie David Vyborny (543) for first place in franchise history.
• Miikka Kiprusoff (Cgy) needs 37 wins to tie Mike Vernon (262) for first place in franchise history.